Department of Women's and Children's Health
We conduct leading education and research with an impact on women’s and children’s health globally
Workshop: Thesis writing
Workshop: Thesis writing
The Department of Women’s and Children’s health invites doctoral students to a one-day kappa workshop:
Seminars and Lectures
Astrid Lectures
KIND Open Seminar
KIND is inviting you to Zoom webinars
Welcome to our open KIND seminars
Pediatric Oncology Weekly Seminar
PIM - Pediatric Immunology, Infection and Inflammation – PIM seminar series
News
New method of assessing the health risk of chemical mixtures
New method of assessing the health risk of chemical mixtures
Every day, people are exposed to large number of pollutants, but the problem of how to assess the dangers of the chemical “cocktail effect” has long frustrated both scientists and public authorities. A collaborative study involving researchers from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Science now presents a new strategy that combines population studies with experiments using cell and animal models.
2021 Michelson prizes push new frontiers in human immunology
2021 Michelson prizes push new frontiers in human immunology
Dr. Camila Consiglio, Postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet, won the 2021 Michelson Prize for: “Investigating the effects of testosterone on the human immune system”
Genetic analysis can guide social skills training
Genetic analysis can guide social skills training
What is precision psychiatry? KI researcher Kristiina Tammimies gives an example. She is a research leader at the KIND competence centre, the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, and studies the role of genetics in neuropsychiatric disorders.
Continued health challenges for individuals with intellectual disability observed as premature mortality
Continued health challenges for individuals with intellectual disability observed as premature mortality
Contact with sperm donors aroused many emotions
Contact with sperm donors aroused many emotions
Sweden was the first country in the world to introduce open-identity sperm donation, whereby adult children are entitled to obtain information about their donors. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now explored how such contacts and relations affect the parents of these young men and women. The study, which is published in Human Reproduction, shows that mothers often find it easier to accept the new situation.
Meet our new Professors
Interview with Marie Klingberg Allvin, Professor at KBH 2021
Interview with Marie Klingberg Allvin, Professor at KBH 2021
Interview with Marie Klingberg Allvin, Professor at KBH 2021
Baldvin Jonsson, Adjunct Professor
Baldvin Jonsson, Adjunct Professor
Interview with Baldvid Jonsson, Adjunct Professor at KBH 2020
Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor
Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor
Interview with Eva Weidenhielm Broström, Adjunct Professor at KBH 2019
Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Associate Professor
Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Associate Professor
Interview with Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, Associate Professor at KBH 2021
Meet our new PhDs
Anna Akselsson - Awareness of fetal movements and pregnancy outcomes
Anna Akselsson - Awareness of fetal movements and pregnancy outcomes
Elena Di Martino - Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy : inflammation and therapies
Elena Di Martino - Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy : inflammation and therapies
Dan Jacobson - Cerebral palsy : studies on health and social outcomes in young adulthood, and on treatments for spasticity and pain
Dan Jacobson - Cerebral palsy : studies on health and social outcomes in young adulthood, and on treatments for spasticity and pain
Sofia Hjelmstedt - A Balancing Act: Work Life and Childcare Among Parents of Children with Cancer
Sofia Hjelmstedt - A Balancing Act: Work Life and Childcare Among Parents of Children with Cancer
Gunilla Lönnberg - Mindfulness based childbirth and parenting program : supporting a good beginning
Gunilla Lönnberg - Mindfulness based childbirth and parenting program : supporting a good beginning
Ulrike Ryll - Measurement instruments for the early detection of unilateral cerebral palsy and evaluation of bimanual performance
Ulrike Ryll - Measurement instruments for the early detection of unilateral cerebral palsy and evaluation of bimanual performance
Annelie Törnblom - Exploring paths to youth suicide and sudden violent death: A multimethod case-control investigation
Annelie Törnblom - Exploring paths to youth suicide and sudden violent death: A multimethod case-control investigation
Teodora Andonova - Understanding and Targeting the Architecture in Cancer: Novel Therapies in Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma
Teodora Andonova - Understanding and Targeting the Architecture in Cancer: Novel Therapies in Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma
Mara Cerqueiro Bybrant - Coeliac Disease in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Screeing, Diagnosis ann Prevalence
Mara Cerqueiro Bybrant - Coeliac Disease in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Screeing, Diagnosis ann Prevalence
Worth noting
ADHD genetic risk score associated with intervention outcomes in autism.
ADHD genetic risk score associated with intervention outcomes in autism.
Problems in synapse connection sites found in rare genetically defined neurodevelopmental disorders
Problems in synapse connection sites found in rare genetically defined neurodevelopmental disorders
The development of antibody-producing cells
The development of antibody-producing cells
Principal applicant Qiang Pan-Hammarström, professor at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition and co-applicants Petter Brodin, Lennart Hammarström, Hong Qian, all three at Karolinska Institutet have been granted SEK 39,200,000 for five years.for their project Developmental trajectories for human B-cells
Defenses and halftimes at KBH
Defenses at KBH
Halftimes at KBH
Announcements
CSC funded scholars 2020-2021
The recruitment process at KI has opened for recruiting of doctoral students, post-docs, visiting researchers and/or visiting doctoral students supported by the China Scholarship Council scholarships.
Worth noting at KBH
Lena Wettergren
Lena Wettergren
The research program investigates sexual and reproductive health in young adults who have undergone treatment for cancer and evaluates the effect of a self-help web-based intervention on sexual problems and fertility-related distress.
New biomarkers for childhood asthma may facilitate early diagnosis
New biomarkers for childhood asthma may facilitate early diagnosis
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have followed children who have sought emergency care for wheezing during their first years of life and found specific biomarkers that can predict the need for asthma medication several years later. The study is published in the prestigious European Respiratory Journal.
Focus on birth injuries
Focus on birth injuries
Most women will sustain some injury to the genital area when giving birth; however, for some of them the problems become permanent. Helena Lindgren is researching the role of the midwife and whether better methods could reduce the risk of vaginal tearing.
Increased performance in female athletes after testosterone supplementation
Increased performance in female athletes after testosterone supplementation
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences have investigated the effects of testosterone supplementation in young athletically active women in a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. The results, which are published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, show that there is a causal relationship between elevated male sex hormone levels and increased aerobic capacity in young women. There was also an increase in muscle mass but not muscle strength.
Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumour treatment
Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumour treatment
Children who have received radiotherapy for a brain tumour can develop cognitive problems later in life. In their studies on mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that the drug lithium can help to reverse the damage caused long after it has occurred. The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry and the researchers are now planning to test the treatment in clinical trials.
The KI 3D-EM facility has opened
The KI 3D-EM facility has opened
Cellular electron microscopy has been a key technique for understanding the cell’s core elements and mechanisms since the 1950s. Electron microscopic methods have laid the foundation for a number of Nobel Prizes and have given us much of the basic understanding of human cells’ overall structure, physiology and mechanisms—basically the foundation of all modern medicine.
Pregnant women with eating disorders run higher risk of complications
Pregnant women with eating disorders run higher risk of complications
Pregnant women with eating disorders should undergo extended pregnancy screenings considering their increased risk of complications. That is the conclusion from a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The researchers were, for example, able to show that children to mothers with eating disorders had an increased risk of premature birth and being born with a small head circumference
New insights into the immune system’s role in severe COVID-19
New insights into the immune system’s role in severe COVID-19
Bill Gates sends Swedish midwifes to Africa
Bill Gates sends Swedish midwifes to Africa
Cheap drug may alleviate treatment-resistance in leukemia
Cheap drug may alleviate treatment-resistance in leukemia
In a study published in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine Sean Rudd at OnkPat with colleagues show that a common and inexpensive drug may be used to counteract treatment resistance in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, one of the most common forms of blood cancer. The researchers will now launch a clinical study to test the new combination treatment in patients.
Prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category was awarded to Thale Kristin Olsen.
Prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category was awarded to Thale Kristin Olsen.
Thale's abstract was ranked as the best translational abstract at the conference, and she received the prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category.